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06-09-2009, 12:01 PM
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New Viking Site Discovered
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06-09-2009, 12:40 PM
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Very interesting, TR, and with great potential.
If you're ever interested in related Norse fiction written very well in saga style, I recommend The King of Vinland's Saga by Stu Mirsky. Good man, outstanding writer, really worked hard at it. |
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06-09-2009, 12:51 PM
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The timing is interesting. If accurate, that would put it about midway beween Ericson and Columbus, suggesting almost continuous adventures to the New World.
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06-09-2009, 02:37 PM
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Possible structure of Vikings...
Just more Von Daniken stuff.
Basque and Irish fishermen have been visiting that part of the world during the last 1000 years.
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06-09-2009, 04:06 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Leovigildo
Basque and Irish fishermen have been visiting that part of the world during the last 1000 years.
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What is your evidence of that? as far as I know, there is nothing but a few cognates between the Welsh and some Indian languages, and similarities of crafts. |
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06-09-2009, 04:28 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Leovigildo
Possible structure of Vikings...
Just more Von Daniken stuff.
Basque and Irish fishermen have been visiting that part of the world during the last 1000 years.
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It's not much of a stretch for Greenlanders to have spent a significant time on Baffin Island or Labrador. |
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06-09-2009, 05:21 PM
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Quote:
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What is your evidence of that? as far as I know, there is nothing but a few cognates between the Welsh and some Indian languages, and similarities of crafts.
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That was my same thought.
Anyway it sure gives credence to the Vikings as the European discoverers of North America and not Columbus. Maybe we should celebrate ''Leif Ericson day'' and not ''Columbus day''  . |
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06-09-2009, 06:55 PM
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This question was raised previously, in Great Debates, and generally, it is Columbus who "discovered America" in the sense the he proved the practical existence of a continent that the Europeans could access advantageously, which led immediately to large scale colonization.
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06-09-2009, 08:40 PM
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Definition of "Discover"
a. To be the first, or the first of one's group or kind, to find, learn of, or observe.
b. To learn about for the first time in one's experience:
When is Leif Erickson Day?? I'd celebrate it 
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06-09-2009, 08:45 PM
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I read somewhere that the first firm evidence of a visitor from Europe was Bjarni Herulffson. However, we obviously do not have a Herulfsson Day, so I wonder what's up with that.
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